Thank you ! Much appreciated

That’s great. Yes they are. They are built like tanks. Glad yours is working

@@techtoremember8096 Yes, It has been well taken care of and I plan to keep it in my A/V setup for as long as I can. I like having my vintage electronics combined with my modern electronics. 😊

As long as you have enough room in the house that’s awesome !

Between 1988 and 1991, I bought 3 SL-HF1000 decks and still have one still functional, for capturing old Beta tapes! Between 1990 and about 1993, I used two of them together as my primary video editing system. It blew me away how frame-accurate it was without time code! Upon receiving my first one in 1988, to verify its frame accuracy, I created a simple animation of a pencil on my floor's carpet by recording a few seconds, then moving back to the first frame I wanted to start motion, then back one frame after that, and so-on, creating about a 5-second 1-frame-increment of motion, consistently accurately editing exactly to the frame intended! Likewise, when editing from my playback deck to the record deck, the source would cut in (assemble OR insert mode) exactly with the frame I set it to! I'd used professional 3/4" U-Matic decks at USC, where I maintained the Cinema School's equipment in the mid-late 1980s, which were controlled by timecode-referenced editing controller's, and THEY would often drift by 1 to 3 frames! While this consumer Beta deck combo was merely referenced by control track and was THAT accurate! I also used the setup for recording audio narrations in the HF audio mode to easily fix mistakes "on the fly", by listening to my well-done part leading up to the mistake in pre-roll, speaking along with it, so, when the edit hit just prior to the mistake, I had a well-flowing speaking cadence going! Playing back a finished 5 to 10-minute narration recording with 10, 12, 15 mistakes fixed, you can't tell it was edited live-to-tape and not recorded live continuously from start to finish! I can't even do THAT on a computer or typical digital audio recorder! Thank goodness I still have a functional SL-HF1000 to continue doing my narration recordings that way!

Wow ! That takes talent. I would not know how to fix that!

Yeah. It was unfortunate that beta died so soon. Those machines were really constructed well and offered so many cool features

@@techtoremember8096 I HAVE A NEW VIDEO FOR YOU IT WILL BE UP SOON

Cool!

A Betamax IS a VCR! Your Emerson was the VHS format. Both Betamax and VHS machines are VCR's (Video Cassette Recorders).

Awesome! 2 is always better than one but they take up a lot of room!

@@techtoremember8096 have a room just for my Betamax recorders. I have some clips of it online 😄

That’s awesome that you got a great deal. Since the tracking actually physically maybe changing the tape alignment, that could be why it’s not feasible to be on a remote and must be a hard switch on the deck itself.

Hey ! Do you mean the clip of the baby ?

@@techtoremember8096 yes that one

It would have either been a Sony Tr5 or Tr6 (8mm) In about 1991 time frame

@@techtoremember8096 Sweet!! and correct me if im wrong but with "hi-fi" mode, the editing deck can turn Monotone audio into Stereo audio?

Is that right ? I didn’t know it could do that ! But I’m going to check the manual on that one !

Good to know ! Thank you

Haha

I do agree that flowers are underrated. There's a science to it, actually. I read in the BBC or something that most flowers people grow don't really fit the local environment.

Oh I thought you were kidding originally. You are definitely right

Don't worry, you are just as right.

Thanks for watching ! It was the king of betas!

I have a super beta deck with a built in amp for speakers

I have two of them from Japan running here in Europe you only need a pal/ ntsc converter and a 100v transformer. I have one ED-Beta and two SL-HF3000 (the Japanese version of the SL-HF1000).